Predator Strikes News Today

They have the master bomb maker who put together the underwear bomb, ink cartridge bomb and implanted a bomb surgically inside his brother to kill a saudi official. they consider that so important both the cia and the u.s. military have ramped up their predator strikes inside al qaeda targets in yemen today. theres a warning of sorts. theres no specific threat but a reminder was put out to airlines and security officials to be especially individual lent on this day even though al qaeda has no hi...

Invective on just about anybody. and finding praise is occasionally difficult for jack jacobs. ive got to say, we launched more predator strikes in obamas first month in office than george w. bush had his entire administration. and like the president was suggesting, you dont want to be number two or number three in the bad guy chain of command because were going to drop a bomb on you. >> what did you make of the presidents response when he was called an appeaser and the way he came back? >> well...

Because this is open hunting ground so they are asking for a ceasefire but they are getting hammered. >>shepard: what is, help us understand the motivation behind-the-scene your taliban, whatever, saying we have stopped firing. >>guest: well, what they have been doing are the terrorist attacks in and around pakistan and they have been facilitating the movement of weapons and fighter and suicide bombers into afghanistan against american troops. but, one of the few places that the pakistani army h...

According to a french defense official also fired on the convoy. there were about according to the french defense official 80 vehicles in the convoy. it is presumed that qaddafi was in the convoy. now we know from witnesses on the ground he tried to hide inside the water pipe. he was dragged out and he was alive. but, what is interesting is it was a u.s. predator drone that was involved in the strike on that convoy as they were leaving sirte. >>trace: we talked about the cost of this was enormou...

>> what you hear, shouts of god is great while others say, quote the blood of the martyrs will not be in vain. the camera tilts down, you see it there the head of gadhafi. wounds on his face, including a gunshot wound in the forehead. officials of the nur lew libyan government said he died of shotgun wounds to the head. suggests he deserves some credit for gadhafis demise. >> our brave pilots have flown in libyas skies. our sailors provided support off libyas shores. and our leadership...

>> major duckworth? >> yeah, i think that they will be but we have to help them get there. >> colonel, well end with you. >> short answer is no. never been a country. its been centrally governed from kabul and probably never will be. >> and you made an interesting note there that sort of karen alluded to, the president when it comes to foreign policy he has a leg to stand on. >> well, hes killed more bad guys surely than did the previous president relying on predator strikes, lots of intelligenc...

Playing both sides the middle here. there is notice doubt that intelligence services supported bin laden in the compound. it is impossible to believe otherwise. we have to get them to go back to where they said they were on september 12th and get them more on sight. it is difficult. we cant say we are tired of all of this and throw them over the side. >> general, do you agree with thamp do you believe that pakistan knew bin laden was there and dont come in our borders again. is that a good that ...

Detre. so bin laden -- this is like the one-two punch. the arab spring delegitimizes the basic idea, and then you lose the charismatic leader. i dont see how they recover from this. >> this is hopefully not a day of politics, and certainly lets hope for many more days it wont be days of politics. i think ultimately people will start to discuss who this benefits and stuff like that. i dont really want to do that at this point. but do you think the bush administration deserves a lot of the credit ...

Lose the charismatic leader. i dont see how they recover from this. >> this is hopefully not a day of politics, and certainly lets hope for many more days it wont be days of politics. i think ultimately people will start to discuss who this benefits and stuff like that. i dont really want to do that at this point. but do you think the bush administration deserves a lot of the credit for what has happened? >> well, anderson, were a great nation, and at a time like this people really do take pride...

With al qaeda decapitated, experts believe this is now a terror network in crisis. what kind of a hole is al qaeda in now as far as leadership is concerned? >> theyve been in a hole for some time. theyve suffered operational setbacks because of things like predator strikes, their operational leadership is decimated. >> reporter: phillip mudd, former cia officer and counterterrorism official says osama bin laden is irreplaceable. with so many jihadists having looked to bin laden for direction for...